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News Linux News for Jul 07, 2009:
What is Cisco doing with Red Hat in the Cloud?
(2009-07-07 00:04:34)
InternetNews: "What is the operating system of the cloud? Linux vendor Red Hat would like it to be Linux. But networking giant Cisco, despite working closely with Red Hat in a number of areas, may be going another direction entirely."
Ubuntu Gdm Theme tutorial
(2009-07-07 01:34:34)
Glurt: "Today we will teach you how to create Ubuntu Gdm Theme for your desktop. We will create Penguins in black GDM theme, you can download it from gnome-look."
Blog From Your Linux Desktop with Drivel
(2009-07-07 03:04:34)
Linux.com: "For those more serious bloggers the need for tools to make this job easier is at a prime. One such tool is that tool that allows the user to blog straight from the desktop, in both on and offline modes."
Microsoft appears to clarify Mono licensing
(2009-07-07 04:11:40)
IT Wire: "The promise extends to two sets of specifications submitted to ECMA, 334 and 335, and appears to clear the way for the use of Mono in the development of free and open source software."
Brazilian President Lula da Silva stumps for FOSS
(2009-07-07 04:34:34)
Worldlabel blog: "In a symbolic show of support for Free Open Source Software and the OpenDocument Format, Brazilian President Lula da Silva recently attended the Linux-related FISL 10 conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where he gave an address underscoring the importance of Free Open Source Software to Brazilian national interests."
Proudly We Fail: 25 Dead Tech Products
(2009-07-07 06:04:34)
Datamation: "Here’s a brief survey of the most memorable and significant products from such companies, and the role that they have played in getting us to our YouTubeTwitteringFacebook generation, along with the mistakes that made them fail."
Down With tHE CAPS LOCK KEy
(2009-07-07 07:34:34)
Washington Post: "I'm not against things that are useless. Hell, I'm useless. I'm against things that are worse than useless:"
Under-$300 CrunchPad Tablet Expected This Summer
(2009-07-07 09:04:34)
Data Storage Today: "Michael Arrington is reportedly ready to launch the CrunchPad, an under-$300 tablet for Internet browsing. The Linux-based CrunchPad boots directly into a WebKit browser and has no hard drive or keyboard."
An Open Source Recipe for the iPhone
(2009-07-07 10:34:34)
Linux Magazine: "The platform that has defined “cool” for years has not had a reputation for being an open platform, but that hasn’t discouraged a number of open source projects for iPhone/iPod Touch."
Can you see Glassfish as the new Apache?
(2009-07-07 12:04:34)
The Educated New Village Boy: "Web servers by Sun? Well, they’re in the top 5, albeit with a rather pathetic 0.29% market share."
SCO's Proposed Amended Complaint Against AutoZone, as text - Updated
(2009-07-07 12:34:34)
Groklaw: " A normal litigant would just fold up shop and call it quits, now that Novell has been ruled the owner of the copyrights that SCO was suing AutoZone about. Not SCO. It is addicted to litigation, I guess, or someone is making them do it. Like the Devil."
Taking a beating with Windows 7 pricing
(2009-07-07 13:04:34)
Cyber Cynic: "When you buy a PC what do you think the single most expensive part? Is it the CPU? Nope. The hard drive? No way. It's long been Windows..."
Geeks vs. journalists: A tale of two worldviews
(2009-07-07 13:34:34)
Betanews: "Why geeks think most mainstream journalism is flaky, and why the mainstream thinks geeks are trying to kill them. (They're both right.)"
The LibDave method of patent immunity
(2009-07-07 14:04:34)
Raiden's Realm: "From what I could gather from his post, his method of patent nullification and indemnification is quite simple and could really be done in a single blanket effort if all else failed. Here's what he wrote:"
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: Akonadi for the Integrated Desktop
(2009-07-07 14:34:34)
Linux Magazine: "The Cross-Desktop Metadata track at this year's Gran Canaria Summit highlighted developer activity targeting central storage of contact data, email and other personal information."
5 Bash Tips, Part II
(2009-07-07 15:04:34)
Tuxarena: "This article is a continuation to my other Bash-related post, 6 Bash Productivity Tips. Since that article gathered many useful comments and I bumped into several more over the net, here are 5 more tips and tricks."
Koala will be 'a definitive shift' for Ubuntu Linux
(2009-07-07 15:34:34)
TechRadar: "Linux Format: Do you have big goals for the next 10 releases? You're dictator for life – is it really life, or like the British penal system where you get off after six years?"
VLC 1.0 for Linux Released, Now with New HD Codecs
(2009-07-07 16:04:34)
Softpedia: "Dear readers, it's time to celebrate... as one of the best, free and popular media player application, VLC (VideoLAN Client), reached today version 1.0.0, after almost four years of activity!"
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: a Study in Contrasts
(2009-07-07 16:34:34)
Open Enterprise: "I got quite a strong sense that a fair number of people in the audience regarded RMS as increasingly irrelevant to their present-day preoccupations, and his hardline purism as unhelpful. That's a pity: we must never forget that without that unbending dedication to freedom we would not have GNU/Linux, nor everything that has flowed from it"
Epiphany - GNOME Web Browser Review
(2009-07-07 17:04:34)
Tuxarena: "Being the default web browser in GNOME and built using the GTK toolkit, Epiphany became over time a well-known web browser especially for the fact that it is lightweight and has a basic, clean interface."
How Open Source Can be SMB Friendlier
(2009-07-07 17:34:34)
Linux.com: "Sobel has been growing his client portfolio with a simple strategy – fix their IT problems with the best tools available.
That means that when the best tool for the task is a Linux or open source application, just use it. And use them, he does."
Debunking the Blade Server Myth
(2009-07-07 18:04:34)
Datamation: "Blades are the opposite of agile. They require large, upfront infrastructure planning that includes technological, physical and geographic lock-in."
Use Gnome-Do To Control Rhythmbox, Banshee, Exaile and XMMS2
(2009-07-07 18:34:34)
Webupd8: "This tutorial will explain how to use Gnome-Do to control Rhythmbox, Banshee, Exaile and XMMS2. Before we get started, I suggest you watch this video I just recorded to see how Gnome Do can interact with these music players:"
New CAOS report on open source licenses, uses
(2009-07-07 19:04:34)
451 CAOS Theory: "Amid all of it, we’re pleased to present our latest long-form report, CAOS 12 - The Myth of Open Source License Proliferation."
A second order virtual machine with Falcon
(2009-07-07 19:34:34)
Free Software Magazine: "Lately, the Falcon Programming Language has attracted growing interest and excited a deal of curiosity.
In this article I'll document some unique features of Falcon that allow users to build easily what I define as a "second order virtual machine"
Weekly Ten: Intel Can't Do Cellphones, ID Chip Implants, Firefox's Challenging Future
(2009-07-07 20:04:34)
Tech Source From Bohol: "Firefox, the descendant of Netscape, the browser that helped jump-start the web revolution, was nimble and it was secure — something Microsoft’s IE wasn’t."
The basics of secure admin privilege use with Unix
(2009-07-07 21:04:34)
Builder.AU: "Sometimes, it’s worthwhile to get back to basics, and today we look at the basics of secure administrative privilege use on Unix-like systems."
Mono promise is nice, Microsoft. What about Linux?
(2009-07-07 21:34:34)
The Open Road: "Mono was open source, in other words, but only usable for a select class of developer."
Palm Pre Dances Nicely with Linux
(2009-07-07 22:04:34)
LinuxPlanet: "Summer releases of the latest smart phones from Apple, Blackberry, Google and Palm have excited geeks all over the world. The big question on the mind of Linux users has to be "Can I sync my Linux machine and my cool new phone?" Paul Ferrill finds the answers for the new Linux-based Palm Pre."
Live Linux Gaming (live.linuX-gamers.net)
(2009-07-07 22:34:34)
Desktop Linux Reviews: "In a nutshell it is a project based on Arch Linux that lets you simply pop a DVD or CD into your x86 computer and start running games. That’s it. No configuration. No installation of games. No desktop distribution problems to wrestle with. You simply insert the DVD, boot up your computer and start playing. No fuss, no muss."
What is new with Apache Pivot?
(2009-07-07 23:04:34)
Greg Brown's Blog: "It has been a while since I have written about Pivot, so I thought I would put together a quick entry to highlight a few of the things we have been working on recently (Apache Pivot is a platform for building rich internet applications in Java. It is currently undergoing incubation at the Apache Software Foundation)."
bashreduce: A Bare-Bones MapReduce
(2009-07-07 23:34:34)
Linux Magazine: "Harness the power of distributed computing using everyday Unix command-line tools and a clever little bash script."
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